Talk:Raffia palm

Sticks
The sentence "In their local environments, they are used for ropes, sticks, supporting beams and various roof coverings are made out of its fibrous branches and leaves" does not make sense. It is not clear whether it means the fibres are used as sticks, or that sticks are made out of the fibrous branches and leaves (neither sounds plausible, but what do I know about raffia?). Maproom (talk) 23:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Leaf Length
The intro states that the leaves can reach 25.11 meters, and later 65 feet. 25 meters is 82 feet, so one of these lengths is wrong or misleading. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.118.225.67 (talk) 19:22, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Fiber
I know nothing about raffia fiber. But to start the last section with "Raffia fibres have many uses," begs the question, "What is a raffia fibre?" There is no mention of the fibre until this section. I had no idea such fibres exist, but a quick Google search turns up hundreds of sites which sell the fibres and products made from them. Could someone who knows how the fibres are extracted from the palms, and how they are processed for the market please put that information in here?Nick Beeson (talk) 11:40, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Pictures of the leaves
It would be nice if someone could get a good picture of very long leaves and integrate it into the article here. The plant is famous because it has so long leaves, but the current pictures on wikipedia don't highlight that detail, so perhaps someone could add a picture of a long representative. (I think it has the longest leaves from all plants) 2A02:8388:1602:6D80:A584:D1E1:2690:10E6 (talk) 10:25, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

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